Giffords Makes a Push on Gun Control

By

Tamara Audi And

Andy Pasztor

Updated Jan. 8, 2013 4:27 p.m. ET

Two years after being severely wounded by a gunman who killed six people outside a Tucson, Ariz., grocery store, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence.

Spurred by last month's killing of 20 children and six adults in a Connecticut elementary school, Ms. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, wrote in an op-ed piece published Tuesday in USA...